I worked on a production once that sent all the inbetweens overseas. No matter what notes you gave, what was on the charts, what extra drawings you put in, every line in the inbetweens would end up exactly half way between the lines on the keys.

As you can imagine, it made for some hilarious drawings but not so much for great animation. The best ones were when they completely bent solid objects. For example, if you were drawing a crank moving around in a circle and did three key drawings, when you got it back you'd have a metal crank moving in a triangle shape.

Drove me nuts. When I complained, I was told by the producers to bear in mind that these people were (and I quote) "monkeys". Couldn't possibly be more offensive. Why hire a studio you consider populated by "monkeys"?

Anyway, just venting now. Hey, Mr.K - given that you write your cartoons (visually) and yet have a well-documented contempt for poor animation writers, what are your thoughts on the WGA strike?

Johnny!Some say Flash cartoons are becoming the "fast-food," of the 2000's and that consumers are not worried about the quality, but the quad. And once again the network "suits will be in control of TV animation, and the dark age will so follow. Cartoons like "Foster's... Monsters" etc are made fast and cheap. Do you feel this way?Ken

This makes me think about a friend who was having a doll prototype made overseas and sent instructional design sketches indicating the doll's head movements by superimposing two positions in one drawing.